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AI is coming for entry-level jobs. Everybody needs to get ready.
CEOs are saying that AI is coming for a lot of jobs, and soon
— perhaps as many as half of all white-collar workers.
That’s likely to show up first in entry-level jobs, where the basic skills required are the easiest to replicate,
and in tech, where the ability to rapidly adapt the latest software tools is itself an entry-level job requirement.
Sure enough, in recent years unemployment has risen…

AI is coming for entry-level jobs. Everybody needs to get ready.
AI may replace a lot of entry-level skills. So how will workers acquire more advanced ones?

Beyond Communication Overhead: A Multilevel Monte Carlo Approach for Mitigating Compression Bias in Distributed Learning
Ze'ev Zukerman, Bassel Hamoud, Kfir Y. Levy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05508

Beyond Communication Overhead: A Multilevel Monte Carlo Approach for Mitigating Compression Bias in Distributed Learning
Distributed learning methods have gained substantial momentum in recent years, with communication overhead often emerging as a critical bottleneck. Gradient compression techniques alleviate communication costs but involve an inherent trade-off between the empirical efficiency of biased compressors and the theoretical guarantees of unbiased compressors. In this work, we introduce a novel Multilevel Monte Carlo (MLMC) compression scheme that leverages biased compressors to construct statistically…

Demystifying NCCL: An In-depth Analysis of GPU Communication Protocols and Algorithms
Zhiyi Hu, Siyuan Shen, Tommaso Bonato, Sylvain Jeaugey, Cedell Alexander, Eric Spada, Jeff Hammond, Torsten Hoefler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04786

Demystifying NCCL: An In-depth Analysis of GPU Communication Protocols and Algorithms
The NVIDIA Collective Communication Library (NCCL) is a critical software layer enabling high-performance collectives on large-scale GPU clusters. Despite being open source with a documented API, its internal design remains largely opaque. The orchestration of communication channels, selection of protocols, and handling of memory movement across devices and nodes are not well understood, making it difficult to analyze performance or identify bottlenecks. This paper presents a comprehensive anal…

As we approach Commencement, YDS is sharing profiles of some of our graduating students. Like Mary Elizabeth Marquardt ‘25 M.A.R.! #YDS2025 https://divinity.yale.edu/news/graduat

On commensurators of free groups and free pro-p groups
Yiftach Barnea, Mikhail Ershov, Adrien Le Boudec, Colin D. Reid, Matteo Vannacci, Thomas Weigel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04120

On commensurators of free groups and free pro-p groups
We study the commensurators of free groups and free pro-$p$ groups, as well as certain subgroups of these. We prove that the commensurator $Comm(F)$ of a non-abelian free group of finite rank $F$ is not virtually simple, answering a question of Lubotzky. On the other hand, we exhibit a family of easy-to-define finitely generated subgroups of $Comm(F)$ and show that some groups in this family are simple. For a prime $p$, we also consider the p-commensurator $Comm_p(F)$, which is the commensura…

You May Use the Same Channel Knowledge Map for Environment-Aware NLoS Sensing and Communication
Di Wu, Zhuoyin Dai, Yong Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03589

You May Use the Same Channel Knowledge Map for Environment-Aware NLoS Sensing and Communication
As one of the key usage scenarios for the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) provides an efficient framework to achieve simultaneous wireless sensing and communication. However, traditional wireless sensing techniques mainly rely on the line-of-sight (LoS) assumptions, i.e., the sensing targets are directly visible to both the sensing transmitter and receiver. This hinders ISAC systems to be applied in complex environments such as the urban low-…

Sen. Ruben Gallego announces Iowa stops amid 2028 speculation (Alex Tabet/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-tariffs-hegseth-netanyahu-doge-immigration-live-updates-rcna217068/rcrd84676?canonicalCard=true
http://www.memeorandum.com/250709/p68#a250709p68

Survey of LLM Agent Communication with MCP: A Software Design Pattern Centric Review
Anjana Sarkar, Soumyendu Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05364 https…

Survey of LLM Agent Communication with MCP: A Software Design Pattern Centric Review
This survey investigates how classical software design patterns can enhance the reliability and scalability of communication in Large Language Model (LLM)-driven agentic AI systems, focusing particularly on the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It examines the foundational architectures of LLM-based agents and their evolution from isolated operation to sophisticated, multi-agent collaboration, addressing key communication hurdles that arise in this transition. The study revisits well-established pa…

“I’m usually fine with surveillance capitalism but this is too much, even for me.”
#surveillance #capitalism #BigTech

Filippo Valsorda :go: (@filippo@abyssdomain.expert)
Attached: 1 image I usually get where big tech is coming from, but this is just malicious tracking. If you're an engineer and you're asked to implement something like this, it's time to whistleblow. I hope the IE DPA will look into it. Anyway, Local Network Access (https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/local-network-access) can't come soon enough. https://localmess.github.io

Communication Round and Computation Efficient Exclusive Prefix-Sums Algorithms (for MPI_Exscan)
Jesper Larsson Tr\"aff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04785

Communication Round and Computation Efficient Exclusive Prefix-Sums Algorithms (for MPI_Exscan)
Parallel scan primitives compute element-wise inclusive or exclusive prefix sums of input vectors contributed by $p$ consecutively ranked processors under an associative, binary operator $\oplus$. In message-passing systems with bounded, one-ported communication capabilities, at least $\lceil\log_2 p\rceil$ or $\lceil\log_2 (p-1)\rceil$ communication rounds are required to perform the scans. While there are well-known, simple algorithms for the inclusive scan that solve the problem in $\lceil\l…